Thousands of students in cities throughout world cut classes during student antiwar strike organized by Student Mobilization Com to End the War in Vietnam; some specific incidents and protests dicussed

200,000 Cut Classes in a War Protest; Actions Here Are Part of International Day of Demonstrations 200,000 STUDENTS CUT CLASSES HERE

E J Logue, controversial urban planner who has attracted natl attention for his redevelopment projects in New Haven and Boston, named pres of Urban Development Corp

State's Urban Agency to Be Led By Logue, Who Spurned City Job; STATE URBAN POST WILL GO TO LOGUE

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US planes fly 110 missions; 1 US plane downed

B-52's Pound Foe In Saigon Region; B-52's Pound the Enemy Near Saigon

Johnson tells top aides that they and their subordinates are to remain aloof in campaign; reptdly embarrassed by string of endorsements of candidates by some of them; word passed to every Cabinet officer by J A Califano Jr

Johnson Tells Aides to Shun Democratic Race; JOHNSON DEMANDS AIDES' NEUTRALITY

Rudd rejects faculty group proposal to set up 12-member panel of faculty, admrs and students to deal with problems of student discipline; group had attempted to act as 3d force between demonstrating students and adm; P Vilardi, student head of Majority Coalition, which opposes demonstration, scores demands for amnesty; police occupy all bldgs that have not been taken over by student protestors; campus sealed off to all but students and employes after 250 hs students stage rally on campus in support of demonstrators; Negro militants H R Brown and S Carmichael visit campus; Brown says people of Harlem should 'blow up gymnasium' if it is built; Rudd predicts gymnasium will not be built; also predicts univ will sever ties with Defense Analyses Inst; illus

FACULTY'S EFFORT FAILS TO RESOLVE COLUMBIA DISPUTE; Protest Leader Rejects Plan for a Disciplinary Panel to Include Students POLICE GUARD CAMPUS But Brown and Carmichael Get Through -- High School Students Give Support Columbia Faculty Fails to Resolve Dispute With Its Plan for a Disciplinary Panel PROTEST LEADER SPURNS PROPOSAL Campus Closed and Police Occupy All the Buildings Not Held by Students

INSTITUTE SET UP TO AID THE CITIES; Supported by Government, It Will Conduct Research Into Urban Problems Institute on Cities' Problems Is Set Up

McCarthy campaign seen in deep financial trouble; advisers say he faces problem of whether he will have enough money to do what must be done in Ind campaign; some of expenses of student volunteers and radio-TV costs cited; he has $25,000 deficit for NH campaign and $100,000 deficit for Wis campaign; pinch comes at time when he plans to send out students to cover entire state; Hiatt appeal for funds brings in $75,000; Cogley named McCarthy special asst, P J Murphy press sec; McCarthy stumps from Evansville and New Albany to S Bend, where he s at Notre Dame; Vanderbilt U student poll finds McCarthy backed over Kennedy

M'CARTHY BESET BY LAG IN FUNDS; Still Has $125,000 Deficit From 2 State Campaigns M'CARTHY BESET BY LAG IN FUNDS

S, UN Assembly com, urging endorsement of nuclear nonproliferation treaty

APPEALS BY U.S. AND SOVIET OPEN U.N. ATOM DEBATE; Approval of a Treaty to Ban Spread of Weapons Linked to Survival of World PEACEFUL USE PLEDGED Both Nations Willing to Aid the Nonnuclear States by Furnishing Technology U. N. DEBATE OPENS ON NUCLEAR DRAFT

Amb Zorin and staff say talks between US and N Vietnam could be held in 2 installments in Warsaw and Paris; USSR strong support of Warsaw as site noted; rumors that Chinese delegation is expected in Hanoi reptd; US State Dept says US awaits answer from N Vietnam to last 3 proposals; Pres Nguyen Van Thieu says he favors cease-fire during negotiations, but only if N Vietnam guarantees it will halt infiltration into S Vietnam; Indian newspaper repts US informs India that it is willing to hold talks in Warsaw

RUSSIANS SUGGEST TALKS AT 2 SITES; Envoys Say North Vietnam and U.S. Could Meet First in Warsaw, Then Paris RUSSIANS SUGGEST TALKS AT 2 SITES

Portugal's Durable Dictator; Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

40 leaders of Cath Action (orgn), including pres Santiago Corral and 3 vps, resign because of dispute with RC hierarchy over orgn's freedom of action role; dispute revd

40 LEADERS QUIT LAY UNIT IN SPAIN; Issue of Freedom of Action Stirs Catholic Disputes

Greek Foreign Min Pipinelis sees liberalization in Communist bloc clearing way for new Balkan ties; outlines proposal for peaceful coexistence among states based on policy of nonintervention and consultation on major crises, foreign press conf; holds new ties will not threaten countries other alliances

GREEK AIDE SEES NEW BALKAN TIES; Official Says Liberalization in Red Bloc Opens Way

Election Approaching

Basketball in the Acropolis's Shadow; Game Introduced by Sixth Fleet, Draws 70,000 to Stadium

Gov Martonmere declares state of emergency as looting and rioting continue for 2d day, Hamilton; curfew imposed; youths involved in riots are predominantly Negro

CURFEW IMPOSED IN BERMUDA RIOTS; Troops Called In as Looting Goes Into Second Day

The Proceedings In the U.N.

Kiesinger backs probe into whether opinion-forming monopoly exists in W Ger but urges probe be far-ranging and not aimed at single co; heckled by demonstrations, some aimed at Springer

Kiesinger Favors Study of Opinion Monopoly Charge

Central Com denounces late G Gheorghiu-Dej for links with execution of L Patrascanu, ex-Justice Min, in '54; also strips Presidium member Draghici of party functions for involvement in case; Gheorghiu-Dej also charged with murder of S Foris, wartime party sec, in '46; late A Pauker, ex-Foreign Min, also implicated; further probe set to seek out other persons responsible for purge trials; Ceausescu's position seen strengthened by action against Draghici, reptd opponent; ex-Central Com sec Chisinevshi also linked with trials; Central Com statement calls for greater role for Parliament and Cabinet in developing democracy

Rumanians Denounce Gheorghiu-Dej

State Opens Yonkers Office

Lenart, in s to conf, clearly aligns Czech party with liberal views of Ital, Rumanian and Yugoslav parties; stresses 'equality and independence'; conf reptdly decided not to publicize its proceedings but Czech press agency distributes excerpts from s and Lenart makes himself available for interviews

INDEPENDENT LINE TAKEN BY CZECHS; At Red Parley, Ex-Premier Espouses Liberals' View

Resignations May Shake Ruling Party in Uruguay

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Soviet literary journal ed V A Kochetov urges tight control of literature to bar its use to prepare counterrevolution, s, Communist party Moscow com meeting; charges ex-Premier Khrushchev caused dissent among writers over controls

DISSENT DECRIED BY SOVIET EDITOR; Party Urged to Keep Tight Control Over Literature

F-111s resume raids against N Vietnam; attack targets near Donghoi

F-111 A's Resume Raids Against North Vietnam

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April 27, 1968

Headlines from April 27, 1968

200,000 Cut Classes in a War Protest; Actions Here Are Part of International Day of Demonstrations 200,000 STUDENTS CUT CLASSES HERE

State's Urban Agency to Be Led By Logue, Who Spurned City Job; STATE URBAN POST WILL GO TO LOGUE

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B-52's Pound Foe In Saigon Region; B-52's Pound the Enemy Near Saigon

Johnson Tells Aides to Shun Democratic Race; JOHNSON DEMANDS AIDES' NEUTRALITY

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The Graduate

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